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Today's Science News: Shuttle undocks after 11 days at space station Final frontier: Crowd sees spaceship launcher fly Hubble image shows debris from Jupiter collision Before Dinosaurs, the First Tree-Climber Revealed US, China pledge common ground BP second quarter profits slump 53% Panel backs NASA bid for bigger shuttle budget GM crop trials start again in Britain in 'secret': report Meltdown 101: Package sizes at the grocery store Animal activists vow to up campaign against Australian mulesing Oldest Animal Fossils Found in Lakes, Not Oceans U.S., China vow closer ties to lead global recovery The Nation's weather Virgin Galactic Deal Targets Small Satellite Launches Coming Soon -- Stem-Cell Surgical Thread? India to unveil 20GW solar target under climate plan Heavy monsoon rains leave 22 dead in Nepal Shuttle undocks after 11 days at space station Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:17 pm PDT AP - After 11 days together in orbit, Endeavour undocked from the international space station on Tuesday and began its trip home, leaving behind a larger and more energized outpost. Full Story Top Final frontier: Crowd sees spaceship launcher fly Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:30 pm PDT AP - Hundreds of earthlings turned their faces to the sky Monday to see an airplane built to launch a ship into space, watching the gleaming white craft soar overhead. Full Story Top Hubble image shows debris from Jupiter collision Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:52 pm PDT AP - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is offering a glimpse of atmospheric debris from an object that plunged into Jupiter in a rare collision with the planet. Full Story Top Before Dinosaurs, the First Tree-Climber Revealed Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:32 pm PDT LiveScience.com - Long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, ancient relatives to mammals climbed forests to feed on leaves and live high above predators that prowled the land. Full Story Top US, China pledge common ground Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:04 pm PDT AFP - The United States and China pledged to work together on a raft of issues from climate change to free trade to Iran as they set the stage for an era of closer cooperation. Full Story Top BP second quarter profits slump 53% Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:49 am PDT AFP - Energy giant BP said on Tuesday its second-quarter net profits slumped 53 percent to 4.39 billion dollars (2.65 billion pounds) due to falling oil prices and despite higher output. Full Story Top Panel backs NASA bid for bigger shuttle budget Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:23 pm PDT Reuters - The United States needs to boost NASA's budget by $1.5 billion to fly the last seven shuttle missions and should extend International Space Station operations through 2020, members of a presidential panel reviewing the U.S. human space program said on Tuesday. Full Story Top GM crop trials start again in Britain in 'secret': report Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:35 pm PDT AFP - Genetically modified crops are being grown in Britain for the first time in 12 months after controversial trials were resumed without alerting the public, a newspaper reported Monday. Full Story Top Meltdown 101: Package sizes at the grocery store Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:44 pm PDT AP - Your eyes are not deceiving you in the grocery store. Yes, your bag of Doritos just got bigger. No, the price didn't change. Full Story Top Animal activists vow to up campaign against Australian mulesing Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:06 am PDT AFP - Animal rights activists vowed to intensify calls for boycotts of Australian wool Tuesday, after farmers said they would continue sheep mulesing, the cutting of the hide to prevent disease. Full Story Top Oldest Animal Fossils Found in Lakes, Not Oceans Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:12 pm PDT LiveScience.com - Conventional wisdom has it that the first animals evolved in the ocean. Now researchers studying ancient rock samples in South China have found that the first animal fossils are preserved in ancient lake deposits, not in marine sediments as commonly assumed. These new findings not only raise questions as to where the earliest animals were living, but what factors drove animals to evolve in the first place. For some 3 billion years, single-celled life forms such as bacteria dominated the planet. ... Full Story Top U.S., China vow closer ties to lead global recovery Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:04 pm PDT Reuters - The United States and China laid out a shared vision on Tuesday of how to lead the global economy out of recession but had little to show diplomatically from two days of talks on topics from climate change to North Korea. Full Story Top The Nation's weather Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:57 am PDT AP - Severe weather was expected to sweep through the Plains and Great Lakes on Tuesday as a low pressure system lingered in eastern Canada. Full Story Top Virgin Galactic Deal Targets Small Satellite Launches Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:46 pm PDT SPACE.com - Virgin Galactic unveiled a new partnership Tuesday that pushes the throttle forward on its plans for commercial suborbital space travel and a new small satellite launch capacity. Full Story Top Coming Soon -- Stem-Cell Surgical Thread? Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:48 pm PDT HealthDay - FRIDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- A team of John Hopkins University undergraduates say they have found a way to quickly and easily embed a person's stem cells into surgical thread, a procedure they believe may help improve healing and prevent re-injury. Full Story Top India to unveil 20GW solar target under climate plan Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:02 am PDT Reuters - India will unveil its first solar power target as soon as September, pledging to boost output from near zero to 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2020 as it firms up its national plan to fight global warming, draft documents show. Full Story Top Heavy monsoon rains leave 22 dead in Nepal Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:24 am PDT AP - Flooding and landslides brought on by two days of heavy monsoon rains in Nepal have left 22 people dead and several more missing, officials said Tuesday. Full Story Top

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